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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am seeing more posts getting away from excerpting.

I think excerpts encourage people to click on the link, which is only just to reward the author who wrote the piece and the site that published it.

As for your post, excellent as usual. Had not seen this particular author at American Thinker, but she’s a find!


2 posted on 08/21/2010 5:25:57 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Congress won't stop spending, so I WILL.. . . Starve the beast!)
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To: fightinJAG
American Thinker dsoesn't require excerpting. When I do as you described, readers complain that I made them go to another site... LOL
5 posted on 08/21/2010 5:29:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: fightinJAG
I am seeing more posts getting away from excerpting.

Excerpting for a lot of news sites is required. It's the blogs that post one sentence and then expect you to go there to read the rest. I don't. If a blogger doesn't have enough respect for what he's written to post the whole thing then I don't bother giving them hits.

11 posted on 08/21/2010 5:57:28 PM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: fightinJAG

“I think excerpts encourage people to click on the link, which is only just to reward the author who wrote the piece and the site that published it.”

OTH, if you (as I do) have dial-up you wait and wait and then wait some more for the damn thing to come up. I appreciate it not being excerpted.


128 posted on 08/23/2010 6:50:32 AM PDT by OldPossum
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